Posted
6/17/2006 04:42:00 PM
by Douglas
BushCo.'s Supreme Court appointments showed their true color this week by further chipping away at the
fourth amendment, this time with
Hudson v. Michigan. Here, read
this, it's short.
In Hudson v. Michigan, handed down Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court carved out yet another "drug war exception" to the Fourth Amendment, which was written to protect Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons and homes. Unfortunately, the ruling is likely to lead to more military-style no-knock raids of people's homes and businesses, which will mean some innocent people's homes will be raided, and a few people are likely to be killed.
The decision could mean, in effect, that every search warrant becomes a "no-knock" warrant.
Well, that's just great! The fourth gets thrown down the toilet because dope-heads flush their drugs when someone knocks on the door. Even more disturbing is that judges are willing to authorize para-military raids on suspects homes under the cover of darkness, and with guns drawn. Gee, I can't imagine anything bad happening from something like
that. For more refutation of Scalia's pipe-smoking, check
this out. After all, Mr. Balko was cited in Breyer's
dissent.